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Dear <<empyreans>>,<br>
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thank you for the opportunity, extended, to be (re)introduced to
this list, with which I've been involved if not actively engaged for
around a dozen years. I've enjoyed the softness of its
skin--although in recent years it has seemed to have hardened up
somewhat--for its inclusiveness and openness to giving a hearing to
those voices without positions and those lacking the trappings,
chairs, curtains or blinds, and other furnishings, afforded by
affiliation and association to institutions: it seems to have become
more and not less for members who can thank the academy. But then I
am and remain a newcomer to this sort of privilege, having commenced
a doctorate based in the research and experimentation of a group I
established in 2014 for this (and its own, transversal) purpose,
Minus Theatre, info about which is regrettably, because I hate
Facebook's corpocratic control of material and immaterial, channeled
through here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/minustheatre">https://www.facebook.com/minustheatre</a>
and this <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/126010542">https://vimeo.com/126010542</a>
too may give some some impression. An account of the years previous
is yet unsettled, even as I set to making in the social network
space a freer alternative through a start-up called <font
color="#ff0000">company</font>; it was anyway and always about the
unsettling of accounts albeit to keep accounts at the time things
had to appear differently, as can be seen here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gust.com/companies/littleelephantltd">https://gust.com/companies/littleelephantltd</a>. And when I first
started contributing to <<empyre>> it was on the PC CRT
monitor of the machine we had installed at Cafe Brazil (1995-2007,
RIP), free for public use, where I think I found the listserv via
AltaVista (also b. 1995). That's regress. As, then, a longtime
(im)poster here I would like to encourage others who may be
'lurking' to be fast and flip and never fear failure to stick to
(routine, settled) discursive protocols or conversational etiquette
by writing something, particularly when they know nothing about it,
it will liven things up. Test the porosity. Feel the difference.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Simon Taylor
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Simon
is a practice-led PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant at</font><font
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University of Technology, New Zealand. He is director of Minus
Theatre Research Group, an experimental theatre practice, </font>
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from the phantasmic register of Klossowski’s simulacrum </font>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">and
Deleuze’s (in Foucault’s words) Theatrum Philosophicum: </font>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">a
<i>Simulacrum Mundi</i>. Minus has originated an approach called </font>
‘<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">theatre
of the individual life’ (<i>t.o.i.l.</i>) and cultivates a
methodology based </font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">in
the transindividual of Gilbert Simondon and Alphonso Lingis's
organic and anorganic <i>transubstantiation</i> of the human.
Simon has a back</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">ground
in
professional theatre as director, dramaturg, designer </font>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">and
playwright. Simon’s research interests include Gilles Deleuze, </font>
<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Félix
Guattari, Alphonso Lingis, Gilbert Simondon, Pierre Klossowski,
immanence, decomposition,</font>
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and biophilosophy. </font>
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